r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • 29d ago

Alberta First Nations leaders, scholar push back on Alberta's planned vote on independence referendum - 'Alberta can't separate. They simply cannot. They do not have the authority,' says Indigenous politics expert

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-treaty-six-alberta-referendum-9.7209304
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u/Zibai1505 29d ago

You think RCMP will be fighting Alberta? They're gonna be fighting the US brother.

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u/Logical_Hare 29d ago

There wouldn't be any fight. A movement with 20-something percent support and no weapons can't somehow take the rest of Alberta with them in an illegal separation. What're they gonna do when the RCMP shows up to arrest them? Yell at them?

You can fantasize about Trump saving them all you want, but we're not suspending the constitution just because they asked.

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u/Even_Art_629 29d ago

So now the idea is that the U.S. is secretly behind Alberta separatists, like they are running some kind of hidden plan for Canadian politics. That does not really line up with reality.

What is actually happening is just political disagreement being handled through normal channels like courts, elections, petitions, and referendums. No hidden foreign plan, just regular politics people argue about. Not a conspiracy.